Ticketmaster admits it hacked rival company before it went out of business

By Ars Technica - 2021-01-06

Description

Ticketmaster used stolen passwords and URL guessing to access confidential data.

Summary

  • Share this story Ticketmaster has agreed to pay a $10 million criminal fine after admitting its employees repeatedly used stolen passwords and other means to hack a rival ticket sales company.
  • In the settlement, Ticketmaster admitted that an employee who used to work for a rival company emailed the login credentials for multiple accounts the rival used to manage presale ticket sales.
  • The employee was later promoted to director of client relations and given a raise.
  • The former employee told his new employer that the values were generated sequentially, and outsiders could use this information to view artist pages while they were still in early draft stages.

 

Topics

  1. Security (0.11)
  2. Machine_Learning (0.04)
  3. Database (0.04)

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